#Operaplot 2011 Orphans

Ladies and gentlemen: the orphans spreadsheet. Instead of copying the #operaplot you are trying to identify as you may have done in previous years, just use write the first three words or so and the name of the opera in the comments.

If this is your first time commenting, don’t panic if it doesn’t appear straight away. I have to approve new commenters and I will do as quickly as a I can.

If your #operaplot is here, don’t be sad. Inclusion on this list doesn’t at all mean that you’re plot isn’t good, merely that our crack teamof identifiers wasn’t 100% sure which opera it is describing and didn’t want to consign you by accident to the wrong section.

Please only guess on the ones you are reasonably sure of.

The plots are in alphabetical order and will be updated as more come in, so do check back often.

indybrendan

Three hot-blooded Italians went to Sant’Angelo: Tosca
Tell me all about your old girlfriends: Hoffman
Witch brother?: think it must be Trovatore
Wait… are they disinfecting this place? Oh man that kid is hot!: Death in Venice\
Sniffing flowers of unknown provenance: Adriana
So I’m poor and crazy, and my girlfriend is a whore: Wozzeck
SWM, mature, well-off: This was actually mine, so 100% sure it’s supposed to be Bluebeard’s Castle as personal ad.
I’m a princess! Wait, no, I’m a slave: Aida
Goldsmith’s daughter: Meistersinger
haha, I kill your son! Wait, my son: Trovatore
Hiho Hiho off to Alexandria I go: Thais
For her it means saving a life and redeeming herself. For him it means falling in love and being able to trust his heart again: I think this is Fanciulla (awwww.)
A diva deceived By a suitor who’d suit her: Adriana
A fairy godmother and bracelet are nice: Cenerentola
A royal finds pleasure in deception and holy crossdressing: I think Ory, even though the Comte isn’t strictly royalty
Breaking news: Stalker ex-boyfriend: Carmen
Crusaders campaign: Ory again
Ineffectual toff fails to assassinate emperor: Clemenza di Tito
No, I can’t shag you. Now gimme that spear: Parsifal
Now let me see. The love of a chaste and pious: Tannhaeuser
Wake up, so we can go to bed: think this must be Gounod’s R&J
Wanted: religious person of good standing: Also R&J

I insist on marrying the bravest man on earth: This has to be Bruennhilde about Siegfried, but I’m not sure which of the operas it would go with.

AJH

A diva deceived By a suitor who’d suit her… Adriana Lecouvreur
Turkish sultan commits suicide to save daughter from tyrant…Bajazet
A fairy godmother and bracelet are nice…Cenerentola
All of Rome wants to kill me; the two sopranos love each other, not me….Rienzi
God goes at it w/nymph undercover as his goddess daughter….La Calisto
How many times I have to tell you: he is not African American! Otello?

“Man starts co. named after a fruit, changes world, is ousted, returns, changes world, battles cancer, changes world 1 last time” – this sounds like the history of Steve Jobs – I don’t believe it is an existing opera

johnpitcher

joncaves

“The fairy godmother … ” has to Cendrillon not Cenerentola – the former has a Fairy Godmother but the later has a philosopher, Alidoro. Apparently Rossini didn’t like the ‘magical’ elements of the story so he dropped them for a much more “enlightenment” view of the world.

Sereisa

“Oh, apparently weird military experiments *will* fuck with a guy’s head.” Wozzeck
“F: Hey, this is a weird horse ride.” Some version of the Faust story
“Assisted suicide/natural death” The Makropulous Case?
“I love you! I love you! (cue thunder) I love you! Where’s your power? I love you? CALL IN THE BARBER!!!!” Samson and Delilah